SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Yes. It was a sad day here in Zagreb, even for a die-hard non-football-fan like myself. French team played excellent football, while our team offered a weaker game than against Germany. A further proof of this was the fact that the team was unable to use their one-man advantage during the last fifteen minutes of the match (from what the TV showed, Blanc didn't deserve the red card anyway). Congratulations to the French! I wish you luck against Brazil. In spite of this defeat, this Cup has been a great success for Croatian football. Prior to the competition, noone in Croatia seriously believed we would rank among the four best football countries in the world. For us, the true highlight of the Cup was the victory over Germany, the established football super-force. A piece of data indicative of the greatness of this victory is that Germany counts 6,200,000 licensed football players, while the whole population of Croatia counts less than 5,000,000. -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- Lost in Static 18 / And the storm is closing in now